CreativeMornings - 🏠 Home is within you

September 1, 2022

“You will build a house out of dust / Until you realize that the home is within you.”

Award-winning poet Barbara Fant understands the discomfort of crossing over the thresholds of our life. These liminal moments will inevitably arise, but she reminds us that we get to choose how we meet them. In this powerful talk for CreativeMornings/Columbus, Fant performs several of her poems, weaving in moments from across the pandemic and the racial justice reckoning. Her work is testament to the power of poetry in protest and art’s ability to transmute personal and collective tragedy. Watch Barbara Fant’s tour-de-force performance and discover what it means to choose joy in the belly of pain.

💌 A Creative Prompt from Barbara Fant

What has kept you alive throughout this season? It could be a friend, partner, home, pet, music, or anything else. Write a letter of gratitude or thanksgiving from that person, place, or thing back to you.

Symmetrical photograph of two yellow trains on either side of a train station platform

Back to Photography Basics

Our partners at MPB welcome you back to (photography) school with composition 101. What makes a great shot? Visual storytellers rely on an array of techniques to construct their image in the frame before pressing the shutter. Read MPB’s beginner’s guide to composition and learn skills to train your eye and develop your understanding of what makes a great image.

Photo by Jorge Alvarado @urbanentdecker_

(From our content partner MPB)

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What Serena Williams means to people around the world.

Sign up and mark you calendars for September 22-23 for our World Wide Wander!

How much creative talent has gone uncelebrated because it’s considered women’s work?

Do you identify as chaotically passionate instead of consistently organized?

A polymath circus artist, chef, coder, photographer, and product developer explains how to master new skills.*

The Visible Mending Project displays all kinds of repair projects on a worldwide map.

This mural pays tribute to a beloved neighbor who kept the neighborhood clean.

The different reading habits of medieval Europe.*

Would you eat stew made from a 50,000 year-old bison?*

Feeling unsteady is often a path to progress.

Listen to infinite mixtapes.

Go ahead and fail.

*Thanks to Geri Paige Butner, Anne Seubert, and Emily White for the link inspiration.

CreativeGuild Spotlights
A global directory of creative companies and individuals.

Animated GIF of a person flipping through the Good Copy Gazette

The Good Copy is a writing school, a publisher and a shop for word people based in Melbourne. If you think a lot about writing — welcome.

A global map made of string and pins with text overlay "State of Makerspaces"

The Makers Nation is connecting art, tech, design and maker communities around the world. Check out their survey on the state of makerspaces.

Cool Jobs in Our Universe
Hiring? Looking for work? Check out the CreativeGuild.

VAWAA is looking for someone to fill their Customer Success and Experience role.

Here’s your chance to become Mailchimp’s Director of Product Marketing, Innovation in Atlanta.

Who Gives a Crap is looking for a Head of Brand Management based in the U.S. or Australia.

Bagby is hiring a Digital Marketing Coordinator in Raleigh, North Carolina (remote-friendly).

Art Processors is seeking a remote Senior Visual Designer.

CIC is looking for a Sales and Relationships Manager in Warsaw, Poland.

Wistia is hiring a Senior Product Manager in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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I made this newsletter like I was gathering specimens for an insect collection. I hope that each thing I’ve pinned has retained a semblance of its lively spirit on its way over to you.

🦋 Waving,
Annie Yi, CreativeMornings HQ

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CreativeMornings - 🏠 Home is within you

“You will build a house out of dust / Until you realize that the home is within you.”

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